foreign the Rottweilers and fossils
remind us of the consequences of sin can
we trust what we see in the textbooks
and in the museums what is fact and what
is fiction
what I want to talk about this afternoon
is fossils and rock layers the flood not
Evolution and millions of years now we
get presented in the museums and in
textbooks this diagram that you can see
on the screen
and many people are confused does that
represent reality do we find rock layers
stacked up like that do we find the
fossils in that particular order
what about the labels on those Rock
layers are they for real
can we trust what we see in the
textbooks and in the museums what is
fact and what is fiction and so I want
to answer to begin with
these questions is The Rock and fossil
sequence real or is it simply contrived
to make it support evolution and
millions of years does it show evolution
in the development of life through this
so-called geologic column and does it
date The Rocks as millions of years old
according to the geologic time scale you
see these diagrams in museums and
textbooks that life has supposedly
developed from the first chemicals that
produce the first cell that diverged
through time over millions of years
branching into all different organisms
that we see today I'm going to shock You
by first of all telling you that The
Rock layers are real if you don't
believe me when you leave the museum
pull over on the 275 out here in a road
cut and Bang Your Head On The Rocks
they're real now the other interesting
thing is the local rock sequences
generally follow the order that's
depicted in the geologic column and so
the layers here in Cincinnati you can
compare with layers in other parts of
the world exactly the same section of
the geologic column it seems to fit and
the other interesting thing is the
fossils contained in the Rock sequences
generally follow the order of the fossil
record the caveat is in those diagrams
they don't show you all the fossils that
are found in the Rock layers they choose
the ones that tell the supposed story of
evolutionary development so the layers
are real and the sequence is real what
about the fossils we find in this
sequence well we have trilobites and and
clams and and sponges and echinoderms
and gastropods or snails and as we go up
through the sequence of the Grand Canyon
Rock layers we've only got Marine
fossils
now as we go northwards up the grand
staircase what do we find we start to
get not only clams but we start to get
terrestrial animals their bones and
we're getting a mixture of fresh and
water and Marine creatures which you'd
expect as the flood came up onto the
land and we'll come back to that in a
moment but we're increasingly get land
fossils as the waters cover the land if
you look at that diagram the middle
column there you'll see drawings at the
bottom of marine life and it's only
higher up do you get the animal life
and so it does fit the general order
what we find in the Grand Canyon grand
staircase areas does fit
so how should we respond to this
information we need to start by
reminding ourselves what God's word
tells us about the history of the Earth
the Bible is God's history book of the
universe in fact the reality is it's his
story what do I mean by that
it's all about Jesus Christ it starts
with Jesus as the Creator
and in the middle you've got Jesus as
the Redeemer and at the end you've got
Jesus the coming King
and so what does the bible record about
history Earth history well we start with
the creation in the beginning God
created the Earth was created it was
initially covered in water and then on
day three we read that God made the dry
land he put soil on it and he put Plants
and he was preparing it for animals to
live in and making it a suitable home
for man on day five we read that God
made the flying creatures and the sea
creatures and then on day six he filled
the land with the land animals and man
the secular time scale says no man is
only a late arrival the universe began
13.7 billion years ago the Earth formed
four and a half billion years ago see
Jesus's time scale is radically
different from the secular time scale
who do we trust Jesus was there who
never tells a lie and who died on a
cross so you and I could have an eternal
relationship with our heavenly father
and live for eternity with with him or
to trust the secular scientists who
weren't there so what do we find in the
fossil record
is the fossil record a record of life
huh that's a record of death you see
living things crawling around in the
Rocks no you see dead things
and you see evidence of carnivalry
animals eating enough animals we see
evidence of cancer broken teeth
fractures that are healed so there was
violence Adam and Eve couldn't have been
walking on a fossil graveyard in the
Garden of Eden because that would be a
record of death and destruction before
they arrived
but that's what the secularists say
you see we know they are wrong because
Thorns are specifically mentioned in
scripture they come after Adam and Eve
sin so they can't be millions and
millions of years old the seculars say
no death and disease and suffering and
bloodshed you and I into existence but
the Bible says no it was man whose sin
that brought death
so how do we explain the fossils if Adam
and Eve weren't walking on a fossil
graveyard in the Garden of Eden because
God had created a very good world to
begin with so there couldn't be dead
dinosaurs under their feet when did the
dinosaurs die well there was a
catastrophe see that's the significance
of the flood because we're we're talking
about a catastrophe that consumed the
whole world Genesis 6 5 says the Lord
saw the wickedness of man was great in
the earth and that every intention of
the thoughts of the heart was under evil
continually what an indictment the world
had become so filled with violence and
wickedness that God said to know I'm
going to destroy all land-dwelling
air-breathing flesh and with the Earth
you go back to Genesis and you read it
carefully he specifically said he was
going to also destroy the Earth
in Genesis 7 we read and the waters
prevailed so mightily on the earth that
all the high mountains under the whole
Heaven were covered the water Prevail
above the highest pre-flood mountains
you know the next time someone asks you
says to you there's no evidence for the
flood you want to say to them well wait
a minute read to them what it says in
Genesis and say if that is true what
evidence would you look for All Flesh
died wouldn't you expect to find
billions of dead things better than Rock
lives laid them all over the Earth and
that's exactly what we find seventy
percent of the Earth is covered in
fossil bearing sedimentary rocks laid
down by water but get a fossil fish in
the first place look at the beautiful
state of preservation of that fish
well there's a fish about to have his
breakfast he doesn't get time to swallow
it before he's buried and fossilized you
get the point
you can't preserve a fossil like that
where he's just about to take a Chomp
and is Frozen in an instant in fact
here's another example from a museum in
Germany that's the Marine reptile six
feet long giving birth to a baby
one minute mother is about to give birth
to a baby
Split Second later she's buried in tons
and tons of mud fossilization had to be
catastrophic virtually instant and rapid
here's a fossilized jellyfish jellyfish
are soft they melt in the Sun or get
ripped apart by the wind and the waves
or these cry noise look at the the heads
of those crinoids oracilities they're
delicate they have been preserved or the
wings of this wasp how do you fossilize
a wasp like that if it's not rapidly
and catastrophically buried or flowers
these are soft organisms that would not
be preserved I mean you get a flower
today and leave it out what's going to
happen to it it's going to wither die
and fall apart no to preserve these
organisms you need rapid catastrophic
deposition on a mass scale so what do
the fossils show they show evidence of
death disease and destruction they show
evidence of Rapid burial in a
catastrophe the flood
they also show evidence of sudden
appearance fully formed and complex
without any ancestors in the layers
beneath them let me unpack that for you
even a simple seller's complex you ask
any microbiologist who looks down a
microscope
and I will tell you that the cell you
can fit on the size of a pinpoint is
incredibly complex in fact one biologist
said the cell is as complex as a city
the size of New York or London because
it's got a brain a control center or a
nucleus it's got transport networks it's
got factories it's got powerhouses It's
got all the ingredients that make up a
mega City so what do we find in the
fossil record we go from life
to complex life
cells fully formed fully functioning
ready
it's the same no matter what level we
look at these flat wounds there's no hit
of any ancestors in the lives below them
they appear suddenly in the fossil
record fully formed fully complex like
this trilobite you know most people
think well that's three low try low bite
three lobes got three sections to its
body by the way you see it's got a head
that's the left hand end see those two
knobs
that's the eyes of the trilobite they're
being fossilized our lenses not these
things that I have to wear but inside
here the lenses in my eyes are made up
of organic tissue not so the trilobite
eyes the lenses are made up of lime the
same mineral that's in Limestone calcite
and we can actually study the fossilized
eye of the trilobite and here it is it's
made up of multiple lenses all all
focusing in different directions at the
same time incredibly complex so this
creature could look in all directions
and have everything in Focus what is
going across the ocean floor
we with our Ingenuity have only made
similar lens systems the last 50 years
by intelligent input and design if
that's the case today what was it at the
time of the trilobite do we find any
ancestors or trilobites below that could
indicate how such a complex eye could
develop all of its own accord
absolutely not
you know it's like this millions of
years of wind and water obviously carved
out the president's head
you and I can all see the evidence of
intelligent planning design and input
here was Charles Darwin in 1859 why then
is not every geological formation and
every stratum full of such intermediate
links geology assuredly does not reveal
any such finely graduate organic chain
and this perhaps is the most obvious and
serious objection which can be urged
against the theory
so he realized there were none none of
these missing links what was his
explanation
the explanation lies as I believe in the
extreme imperfection of the geologic
record well in 1859 they hadn't explored
most of the world so we can excuse
Charles Darwin but what about today when
geologists and scientists have been in
every corner of the globe trilobites are
always trilobites they don't change into
something else they're different shapes
with different ornamentation different
sizes but they're always trilobites or
brachiopods or lamp shells they have
different
ribs they've got the same overall body
plan they look different from one
another but there's similarities in all
their features it's just like dogs are
always dogs from Chihuahuas to Great
Danes they're all dogs they look
different but there you know that
they're dogs when you see them we also
see that once a creature appears in the
fossil record it stays the same it was
Stephen Gould who coined the word stasis
it means staying the same let me give
you some examples you can go to the
bottom of the Grand Canyon and we see
there in the Grand Canyon these huge
Mound looking things these Dome things
the technical term is stromatolite what
are they
well their mats fossilized mats of slime
that lived in the tidal Zone near the
beach the sand grains go over the mat
and the mat grows up on the sand grains
and binds the sand grains together and
then the next tie brings in more sand
Graves it keeps up piling up and growing
these domes how do we know that because
the same slime is doing exactly the same
thing today or you can see this fossil
fish in the fossil record called the
coelacanth supposed to have died out 65
million years ago until 1938 we found it
living off the coast of Madagascar we've
even videotaped it swimming off Japan
and off Indonesia the ginkgo's and the
fossil record are identical to the
living ones we recognize beetles in the
fossil record because they're identical
to the living beetles
so we find evidence of death disease
destruction we find evidence of Rapid
Barrel in a catastrophe we find evidence
of death Extinction and we find evidence
of Rapid mass destruction and burial on
a global scale in the flood yes we don't
find the fossils as individuals we find
them on Mass
if you don't believe me go off the 275
into one of those Road cuts and that's
exactly what the limestones the hard
layers that you'll find and all the road
Cuts around Cincinnati full of corals
clams brachiopods and Chronos all broken
up and smashed up Briars Owens the
limestones are jam-packed with all the
broken remains of these creatures
everywhere you look when we see fossils
do we know that's where they died
no do we know where that's where they
lived no one thing we know is that's
where they bury because we observe them
buried in the rocks in that location so
how do you get a wild and possum that
didn't live together to be buried
together the ocean covered the land many
of you are familiar with the chalk
Cliffs of the White Cliffs of Dover the
English Channel made up of chalk a type
of limestone under the microscope you
can see trillions literally trillions of
microscopic shellfish
and when we look at the fossil record
what do we find we find marine fossils
throughout the record yes some became
extinct but many survived all the way
through the flood they didn't have to go
on the Ark by the way because they could
live in the water and survive in the
water through the flood lastly what do
the rock layers show well they show that
the ocean waters flooded over the
continents how do I know that because
there are Marine fossils in rock layers
covering the continents
that's right Marine fossils what do you
expect if they were Marine the creatures
lived in the ocean they'd buried in the
ocean
well why are they buried up on the
continents
they had to get transported lifted up by
the flood waters and dumped up on the
continents and wouldn't you and I expect
to find widespread rapidly deposited
Rock lives because the flood was a
global and it went all around the earth
yes we find rock lives that can be
traced all the way across continents and
even between continents let me give you
examples the topek Sandstone at the
bottom of the Grand Canyon is the first
layer of the flood it sits on that
erosion surface that marks the beginning
of the flood there we can see it
that's the view from the south rim of
the Grand Canyon that little Cliff at
the bottom there sitting on top of an
erosion surface let's look at it a
little bit more closely
we can study its characteristics
you know what we can trace that
sandstone in outcrop and in drill holes
all the way across North America across
the green land
you can go to Chippewa Falls in
Wisconsin and you can see exactly the
same Sandstone with exactly the same
features sitting on exactly the same
erosion surface sitting on the same
crystalline basement you can see it on a
road cut in Missouri as well in between
the same Sandstone can be traced right
across North Africa right over to
Southern Israel
timna you've got the same Sandstone with
the same fossils the same features with
the same erosion sitting on the same
crystalline basement
this is my last example the chalk Cliffs
of England remember we looked under the
microscope this type of limestone is
made up of trillions of microscopic
shellfish
what I didn't tell you last time is that
you can trace that Limestone across the
northern Island
but you can also trace it across Europe
to Germany the Netherlands Germany
Poland all the way down to Israel Egypt
turkey Kazakhstan by the way at the
bottom of that cliff
a Shepherd boy picked up five smooth
stones to slay a giant there's the same
chalk pins as on the English Channel
Coast
and we've got the same Chalk in the
Midwest of the United States from
Alabama across the Calif to Colorado
from Nebraska to Texas that's a global
scale fossil graveyard made of all these
trillions of microscopic shellfish well
what do the scientists say about the
formation of this Limestone called chalk
they say the chalk beds formed over
millions of years as lime grain by lime
grain and Tiny Shell by tiny shell fell
to the ocean floor they say a fraction
of an inch every thousand years oh by
that that's on the ocean floor where do
we find the chalk up on the continent
what other fossils are buried in the
chalk beds well if we go then I bear a
chalk in Kansas we find it's full of
crinoids perfectly formed crinoids that
had to be catastrophically buried or
this fish didn't get time to digest its
food you see the size of that fish it's
12 foot long would you bury that a
fraction of inch every Thousand Years
the fish would have digested itself and
swam away wouldn't it or in the same
chalk bed you've got plyosaur fossils
and turtle fossils 10 and 12 feet long
across you've got dinosaur fossils and
bird fossils in the same chalk beds how
would you gradual grain by grain a
fraction of inch every thousand years on
the ocean floor over millions of years
bury together such large sea land and
air-dwelling creatures on the continents
not on the ocean floor see my point only
if the ocean waters Rose and swept
across the continents catastrophically
burying these land and sea and
air-dwelling creatures all together in
this global scale fossil graveyard
that's the chalk beds only the flood
makes sense of that kind of evidence
well
is The Rock and fossil sequence rule yes
we've learned that today is it simply
contrived to make it support evolution
in millions of years no it's real
does it show any evolutionary
development of life in the geologic
column no no no no
do the fossils date The Rocks as
millions of years according to the
geological time scale no no no the
fossils don't come have labels on them
high I'm millions of years old they're
just fossils
do we find Marie creatures buried and
fossilized on the continents yes yes yes
were the creatures buried rapidly and
thus the rock layers formed rapidly yes
yes yes
do some rock lives have a global extent
yes yes
are the rock lives and fossils
consistent with the global flood yes
indeed
so you see when we start with God's word
as our authority of eyewitness account
Earth history the fossil record is
consistent with the global cataclysmic
Genesis Flood explains the sudden
appearance of fossil creatures their
design complexity and their varieties
their death and Extinction the buried
order of pre-flood biological
communities or biomes and creatures
during the Progressive integration of
the global flood and The Rock layers
where the Marine fossils covering the
continents are emphatic evidence as
being the result of the global flood so
The Rock lies and fossils remind us of
the consequences of sin
our sin and God's judgment you know
imagine that
man was so wicked and the Earth was so
full of violence that God had to go to
that extent
that extent to start all over again